FEELING ‘JACKIE’
Natalie Portman did far more than dress the part
Walk into any college dorm and you’ll find one of them — Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy. There, covering the cinder blocks, is almost always a black-and-white poster of a glamorous icon still recognized more for her beauty than anything else.
But in her freshman dorm room at Harvard University, Natalie Portman left her walls bare.
“I feel like I had that serious-kid thing,” she said, rolling her eyes at herself. “I didn’t have style icons. The people I was into were, like, Jane Goodall. I loved Audrey Hepburn, but I was into what she did for kids with UNICEF and stuff.”
The irony, of course, is that at 35, Portman has become something of a style icon herself. She’s one of the faces of Dior, selling perfume in gauzy ads with French music and garden roses. And she is frequently recognized as one of the best-dressed stars in Hollywood, walking the red carpet in exclusive couture gowns.
But she often has trouble reconciling this part of her identity.
Rating: R, for brief strong language and some violence. Running time: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Playing: Arclight, Hollywood; Landmark West Los Angeles